Relations with NA's
- Created by: lyd_kate
- Created on: 15-01-18 10:46
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- Socio-economic development and relations with settlers and NA's.
- NA's
- Positives
- Access to guns/rum not available, trade
- Allies in battles supported by French
- Negatives
- land taken, wars
- Became dependent on goods, loss of ally in Treaty of Paris
- Positives
- Expanding trade
- Higher population & new land. 1/3 British imports traded 1760's
- Inter-colonial trade, Britain & Empire (credit was available)
- 1650-1770, colonial economy grew 3.2% a year
- New England cod trade with W. Indies for sugar & molasses (rum)
- Agriculture & Fishing
- Variations in regions, New England, lack rich soils, but sea profitable.
- Middle - wheat/flour, trade, W. Indies & Europe
- South - tobacco. £100m by 1770. Rice, indigo, grain trade with Europe too
- Mercantilism
- All cargoes to be carried in English/Colonial ships, English crews
- Enumerated commodities, sugar/cotton. Exported via England.
- All cargoes to be carried in English/Colonial ships, English crews
- Effects of mercantilism
- Few complaints, not well enforced. Heavy duties for Navigation Acts rarely collected
- Ill paid deputies, easily bribed. Halifax tried to up imperial control - smuggling.
- Woolen Act ineffective, wool never exceeded local demand. Iron Act not restrictive, free of duty in Britain. America > Britain 1770's
- Development of American culture & impact
- No dominant religion. Churches in 9 colonies. Most anti-Catholic
- Organisations set up, Ben Franklin international notice for work
- Society
- Wealthy elite whose returns sometimes rivalled English landowners
- Professionals lawyer/doctorpositions of public responsibility
- Landowners, 80% of free men farmers
- Servants, then slaves at bottom. Bought and sold, mainly plantations
- Landowners, 80% of free men farmers
- Family hierarchical, women had no legal right to property
- More farm owning, more middle class
- NA's
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